Those of you that read this blog probably know me pretty well, and as such would know that I’m a big fan of smartwatches, I mean whats the point of lugging around a thing on your wrist that can only tell you the time? I stopped wearing watches years ago for that reason. So as you can imagine Ive been drooling over an Apple Watch even since they were announced, I had intended to preorder one, but when preorder day came along I was broke..
And so I had to sit back and watch as the world lapped up Apples stock.
Several months later, my birthday came along, and my fiancee presented me with a 42mm Apple Watch, suddenly I remembered what birthdays were like as a 5 year old.
I've had this now for a couple of weeks and it is every bit as awesome as I imagined! The ability to get notifications and respond to them on your wrist without the need to get your phone out is unbelievably handy, so is having all of your loyalty cards on your wrist! Not to mention all the cool extra stuff like, taking phone calls on your wrist, remote control for the iPhone camera, getting a brief look at the weather forecast and all the awesome, customizable watch faces.
One of the features fairly high on my favorites list isn’t the activity tracking that this thing can do, but the best thing about that is it keeps track of how long you spend sitting and after 50 minutes of sitting it taps you on the wrist and says you need to stand up and walk around. I spend far to much time sitting, either for work or in front of a computer and so this is a very handy feature. All this is set to get better too with the next OS update for this thing!
So to sum up this is an AWESOME watch, and I have THE BEST Fiancee ever!!